DSPy Team: Hand-written Prompts and Fully Managed Agents Are Both Premature Optimization
The DSPy team argued that both hand-written prompts and fully managed agents are forms of premature optimization, sharing deeper lessons beyond the 'program, don't prompt' idea popularized by Jev.
2026-09-21 ~ 2026-09-21 · 2 related posts
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